"I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life."
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"The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart."
"When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine."
"UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others."
"Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things."
"It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated."
"I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested."
"Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states."
"It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give."
"Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way."
"We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work."
"To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from."
"Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there."
"The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly."
"The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive."
"The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more."
"Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true."
"An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness."
"it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it."
"The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions."